MA Standards:
Speaking and Listening/SL.PK.MA.2: Recall information for short periods of time and retell, act out, or represent information from a text read aloud, a recording, or a video (e.g., watch a video about birds and their habitats and make drawings or constructions of birds and their nests).
Head Start Outcomes:
Literacy Knowledge/Phonological Awareness: Identifies and discriminates between sounds and phonemes in language, such as attention to beginning and ending sounds of words and recognition that different words begin or end with the same sound.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 8: Listen to, identify, and manipulate language sounds to develop auditory discrimination and phonemic awareness.
Watch Together: “What’s Your Name (a)” (BTL clip)
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ELA Focus Skills: Active Viewing, Phonological Awareness, Vocabulary
Remind children that yesterday they looked for the letter “Aa” in their names. Tell children that today they are going to watch the Between the Lions video “What’s Your Name (a)” and hear a song about many names that have the letter “Aa” and the /a/ sound in them.
- Encourage active viewing. Say, Listen to see if they mention the name of any children in our group!
- Play the video a second time. Encourage children to sing, clap, or move to the music and say any words they recognize.
